| Magazine Name: | Blue Island Review |
| Website: | Defunct |
| Editor: | Katie Longofono |
| Print Magazine? | Yes |
| Mailing Address: | |
| Email: | blueislandreview@gmail.com |
| Circulation: | <500 |
| Submission Guidelines: | |
| Approximate Response Time | 90 days |
| Publishes: | once a year |
| Year Founded: | 2010 |
| Online Submissions? | Yes |
| Information about your publication: | THE BLUE ISLAND REVIEW is a journal produced by writers living in Lawrence, Kansas. The members of the Blue Island Poetry Group hold these tenets: that poetry is the art of making all suffer; that hypergraphia is a disorder that should be incubated; that the experience of poetry is to induce emotion through image, sound, and association; that narrative is prose, and should remain such in its multiple nefarious forms; that economy of words is most powerful; that love as it is known is a most brutal form of chemical warfare, and that to inflict poetry on the unsuspecting, both in print and in voice, is the highest calling of very sexy people. To that end, we solicit contributions from writers living in (or connected to) northeast Kansas in the hopes that their work reaches more lovers of poetry than it otherwise might.See More |
| What type of submissions you are looking for: | We only accept poetry submissions. We appreciate poetry that moves us through language, narrative, and sound. We want something that says it in a new way, work that pushes us to re-think how we imagine poetry, and work that makes us remember why we love poetry in the first place. Send only your best work. While we only accept poetry from writers associate with the Kansas City area or Kansas or Missouri or a mixture of the two, that does not mean we only want poetry that reflects Midwestern values or images. Of course, we do not turn away poetry about Kansas, either – it’s just not a requirement. |
| Information on Contests: | We don’t have a contest at this time. Each year, we hold a book release where all contributors are invited to read. We encourage all contributors to come and share their work and meet other local writers. |
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